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Safety Flashes

Stay informed and enhance your company's safety practices and procedures with IMCA Safety Flashes. 

Our platform delivers crucial insights into industry incidents and potential hazards, along with invaluable lessons learned and improvement opportunities enabling us to mitigate future risks.

Access individual safety events conveniently in our archive below. Elevate your safety standards and prevent incidents with IMCA Safety Flashes.

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Individual entries can be downloaded as a PDF to easily share and print within your own organisation. Fully searchable for quick reference, Safety Flashes are tagged by Life Saving Rule. What are these?

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  • GPS jamming and spoofing – good practice example

    A Member’s vessel in the Red Sea encountered GPS jamming.

    Safety Flash

    IMCA SF 15/26

    20 August 2026

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  • LTI – Shoulder strain when crew member was descending the stairs

    A crew member sustained an injury to their shoulder as they were descending a flight of stairs into an ROV hangar.

    Safety Flash

    IMCA SF 15/26

    20 August 2026

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  • Emergency escape hatch found blocked

    Emergency escape hatch to the deck could not be opened.

    Safety Flash

    IMCA SF 15/26

    20 August 2026

    • Bypassing safety controls
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  • Crew member sustained hand injury during lifting operations

    A crew member sustained a hand injury during a lifting operation involving a main engine cylinder head.

    Safety Flash

    IMCA SF 15/26

    20 August 2026

    • Working at height
    • Safe mechanical lifting
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  • NOPSEMA: Lifting operations dangerous occurrences and injuries

    NOPSEMA has published a safety bulletin relating to lifting operations in the offshore industry.

    Safety Flash

    IMCA SF 15/26

    20 August 2026

    • Safe mechanical lifting
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